My Apple Reminders Setup: iPad Productivity

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[@the.regulargamer]

This man constantly makes me feel like theres a whole world hidden in the apple works suite of apps. Makes me want to switch to all the free apple options but im so used to my applications that ive payed for lol.

[@ChrisLawley]

I love third party apps, but I am defiantly wanting to highlight some of great built in first party apps.

[@misterguy]

You’re paying hard earned money on a reminders app? Sheesh

[@the.regulargamer]

@@misterguy no not reminders, my comment was just on apps in general. Im a student so i payed for Goodnotes

[@misterguy]

@@the.regulargamer you’re paying hard earned money on a notes app? Sheesh

[@misterguy]

@@the.regulargamer naw I’m playin lmao

[@joelmaurer8190]

I complete agree on your request to have Reminders to show in the calendar. Hopefully that is something Apple changes in the future.

[@russlowrey]

The free version of Fantastical app does this.

[@paularuiz118]

Read somewhere that you can use shortcuts for this but I’ve never dived into this functionality

[@joelmaurer8190]

@@paularuiz118 thanks I’ll have to see if I can figure that out

[@SnowyOwlPrepper]

On solution to test for yourself is split screen the calendar and reminders. Drag the reminder to the calendar.

[@joelmaurer8190]

@@SnowyOwlPrepper great idea! I’ll give that a try

[@drdentrepair5530]

For the last few years I have been using just the apple calendar, notes and reminders apps and they have everything I need. I do agree the sub task in reminders is puzzling.

[@youtube_user4422]

Totally agree with the start date and due date. This would make me switch 100%. The ability to have a start and end date for task duration would be great

[@jeffhale1189]

Thanks for the in-depth coverage of Reminders. I appreciate your work. Blessings on your day!

[@danielhughes441]

The lack of integration between Reminders, Calendar, Contacts, Safari, etc. is the thing that frustrates me more than anything else!

[@jamesa8225]

YESS! This is exactly what I’m struggling with. I love the simplicity but the lack of integration and synchronization is killing me

[@chinothedreamgiver1629]

Incredible… 6 years with my reminders app on iPad and I never knew anything you just taught us. Thanks

[@andricheli]

Great video! You’ve captured all the goodies here. I love Apple reminders. It gets great improvements each year and I run my life out of it. Very easy to use with Siri and the Kanban view is a huge improvement for project management.

[@horrorspidey7033]

Thanks for this brother, really needed this.

[@suzanner3894]

EXCELLENT video. This is the best deep dive into reminders that I’ve seen.

[@christophercool-calgarysfu4370]

"View as Columns" Thank you for sharing this! Great video.

[@RichardAllum]

Another really good video. You can use early reminder for start dates now.

[@danieleinfante3930]

I'm slowly switching to a full apple ecosystem, and finding out that there is no calendar integration in reminder was really a surprise. Natural language input made me think of switching from todoist, but the absence of calendar is a completely no for me.

[@trunkswithnojacket]

Really cool video, it inspired me to organize my own productivity system with my Apple’s built-in suite! Wanted to point out one thing though, the shortcut you shared works well except for this one small bug. When running the shortcut over a Safari page and using an external keyboard, the shortcut is unable to take in any input from the keyboard. You have to get to on-screen keyboard to show up. Just wanted to put it out there in case anybody else runs into this issue!

[@radjinderG]

Brilliant - this is the video I was so searching for! Thanks for the detailed and perfect setup.

[@Justin-bw8zi]

Such an informative and emotive tutorial!!! Great pacing, etc. One area of reminders I struggle with: I want to assign reminders to other family members, but NOT have those date bound reminders show up in my “today” view (as I just want to see what I need to do “today”. Is there a way to filer only for my reminders?

[@kevinfjharris]

Awesome deep dive into Reminders! Thanks for this video, super helpful. Reminders has come a long way and with iOS 17 I am using it again.

[@jimmytrentham3094]

Another great video, thanks Christopher.

[@whizzbang7520]

This video gave me a great overview, thanks! I was looking forward to switching from Microsoft To Do to a native experience. Now it is time to do so

[@Sobanggongbugirl]

I can’t help but to subscribe your channel. The informative video, clarity of the voice, suitable speaking rate for non-english user like me. Thank you!

[@AdelmoGalindo]

Very interesting the points you addressed and the personal cases you shared, have a lot to do with my personal experience with Reminders. This also applies to the criticisms you have made regarding, especially in relation to smart lists and subtasks. The content of your video is very good. Thank you for sharing!

[@philippkeil5358]

Awesome video as always. You can quickly add subtasks by adding them as if they were regular tasks and then swiping to the right and choose „indent“ (I hope that is what it’s called in English 😬)

[@tylergriffsmith]

The best video on this. Thanks Chris

[@daniellip1243]

I wish there is progress bar for tasks to visualise how close are you to finishing all tasks within a list

[@marcodimario9918]

Your video and the way you teach us the insides of those stock apps, is....awesome! U're a true iPad master :)

[@ChrisLawley]

Glad you like them!

[@Jason_Polkovitz]

This is wonderful. Thanks!

[@darreng1496]

Great intuitive video Chris.

[@budgetaudiophilelife-long5461]

THANKS CHRIS 🤗 FOR SHARING THIS 👍😎💚💚💚

[@woffi7397]

Just when I thought I knew all there is to know about the Reminders app - thanks, man!

[@heldemel2035]

I like how granular you get in this video - super helpful!

[@Akella1986]

I prefer Things 3 more but will listen to your Reminders review with interest.

[@jinSsongL]

Thank you for your video… and yes. I don’t use the sub task for the same reason.

[@maigallop]

Hey Christopher, You can link a note to a reminders have been able to for quite a few years. It’s kind of a hidden feature but it is doable. Just highlight a portion of your note and the a bar of options pops up. Share is one of those options, then select reminders. You can change the title of the reminder and the folder you want to save it to. Hope that helps. Thanks for all the content you put out. I learn so much from you.

[@electric-m]

Or just drag and drop a note over to reminders like with an E-Mail.

[@maigallop]

Yes, this works too.

[@saimeghana2261]

I agree! It must get faster -- don't know how, but it seems pretty time-taking right now. Especially when you're in a hurry, it feels really tedious to add a reminder with the corresponding List, Date, Time etc

[@charles-henriraynaldy3109]

Just learn about this column option! So useful. Thanks a lot.

[@felipesouza4292]

U r a life saver…. Thank you, I learned so much with your channel… shoutout from Brazil.

[@jhon2k1y]

Great tips and video. Thanks 😊

[@Ded-Ede]

17:54 the two things I really are Reminders need a option in the inspector panel to show selected reminder or Today’s reminders in calendar app. And definitely link /auto fill notes from Notes apps to the notes section of Reminders, Calendar and Contacts and have the Notes apps be the reservoir for notes fields of the varying apps. I still find Reminders is a little bit clunky and cumbersome to use. I add Reminders to it, but then I never go back into it since I mainly live in my calendar app but I love the powerfulness of Reminders and the Notes app. I’ll try to incorporate some of your techniques you just showed here, but Apple definitely needs to take a lot of your suggestions and add them to Reminders app. 👍🏾

[@EUAccount]

@14:00 -- you already know this but changing a pdf to an image allows you to attach it to a reminder - - your vids are brutal (that means "amazing" in spanish) - - I bookmark them and rewatch so many times. -- they have so much good info...!!! keep up the good work!! You're the best!

[@alexgruft140]

Thank you for your video. How did you add the "someday" group where the "today" and "scheduled" view are?

[@SantiagoSalse]

First time seeing one of your videos and is an immediate Subscribe! I was looking for an alternative to Notion that works offline and makes Kanban boards less complicated. Thanks a lot! I'm glad I have a full Apple Ecosystem to take advantage of all the syncing. Also, I like how U mention all the use cases and not only the average KZbinr video editing workflow

[@cisko213]

This is pretty much a HM Bradley commercial. Got it Thanks.

[@KimberlyNissen]

You highlighted every flaw that keeps making me look for alternatives to Reminders. They may be few but they are significant enough to the UX to make it off putting.

[@Jona]

Dude your bag shortcut is TOOOO good, thanksn

[@Jona]

Edit: Got to customize it, but not the overnight travel section 😢 how to edit that? I dont see where the pants variables are entered?

[@MatthewMDeForrest]

14:19 I may have a work around for adding documents - although it is a little cumbersome. If you have iCloud, you can share a document/file. That link can be pasted in to the Links field and it will attach to the reminder and link back to the file. I hope this helps!

[@ryanisanart]

Thank you for voicing the weirdness surrounding subtasks and the 'Today' view. Ideally I would like to be able to view the task with its dropdown on any day it or one of its subtasks are due. Not being able to see the subtasks as part of the dropdown in Today, etc. is a huge bummer.

[@itswrithe]

Great, now how to create a smart list for TOMORROW's list ONLY?

[@ale3is]

Great review

[@davehugstrees]

Great video and always enjoy your deep dives into productivity tools like Apple Reminders. Btw please add chapters to your videos. ;)

[@tessloggins8485]

Very informative video. Very helpful.

[@ChrisLawley]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rajanrengasamy]

Can you please create chapters to this video?

[@volitionfitnessnyc1961]

That calendar 📆 view is the one feature that has kept me from using it. Thanks for great video.

[@njbsu]

Hey Chris, I find this video inspiring. However as someone who can be carried away easily, really appreciate if you can put sections into your video so that we can easily reference any point we want to look into. Amazing work and keep up (y) !

[@jackspratsmom]

I add images to our shared shopping list so my husband gets the right thing!

[@claumagagnotti1]

Hi, tks for this video! It was helpful

[@gustavomoraes9538]

I would like you to have the option to select several tasks and subtasks from a list, and when selecting them, a COPY OPTION appears, and you can paste them into a new list. I don't know if this is available on the Macbook, but it's not possible on the iPhone.

[@illiastrieltsov]

Thank you for the video. I took a few interesting tips for myself. In the end of the video you said that it would be nice to link note from Notes and task from Reminders. Actually, you can do it. You just have to push “share” button in Notes and there you can add this note to task. Maybe I didn’t understand correctly what you meant.

[@robfuzz]

I tried to do this but Reminders isn’t in my list of destinations. 🤔

[@holubus]

I love the TaskCut shortcut thanks a lot for that! :-) Would it be possible to either adjust this shortcut to include Apple Mail messages as well please?

[@njgjhrjd]

Great video, very helpful, thank you! I really hope that native apps do get better and faster instead of clunkier and overloaded with niche functionality… something 3rd party producst are prone to by definition (Things, Evernote, Spark, you name it)

[@jhope1923]

Your baseball cap is elite

[@KingdomFTX]

😎This is REALLY good. Thank you for doing this. QUESTION: Do you have a link for your V-Neck shirt from this video by chance? Or what is the brand and where did you get it? Thanks!✌

[@kaitel5761]

bro that great 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ChrisLawley]

Thank you!!

[@sevance1]

Great job. About ATTACHING DOCUMENTS, here's a work-around. Since you CAN attach a "JPG"...whenever I need to attach a file like a PDF, I just convert it to a JPG or even take a SCREENSHOT; both of which CAN be attached. It works...just one extra step. HTH

[@bankruptsee]

I wish I had the time to set all this stuff up. If it’s not showing in the app by default, I don’t use it unfortunately lol.

[@jaerg91]

I love dropping images into my reminders! It’s so good! Also, under notes… I put the Aisle # that the item is in. I shop a lot for my work.

[@lukygoon]

Nice video - I kind of want to switch everything to reminders and just use that instead of calendar. Whats the point of even using a calendar?

[@Laricostaj]

You need to make a video like this about calendar! Pleeeaaaseeee 🫶🏽

[@ThomasEJohnson]

Reminders is one of Apple’s most underrated Apps. It is quite powerful when used appropriately.

[@arikviney5043]

Is it better than google tasks?

[@ThomasEJohnson]

@@arikviney5043 I don’t use Google tasks so I can’t advise.

[@grant1437]

The TaskCut shortcut is great but I need help with adding the ability for a date/time field so it pops up when required please 🙏

[@accentontheoff]

HI Chris, great video as always. I’m going a little nuts trying to decide between this app and Things 3 (which I already own). Currently Apple Reminders has a bit of an edge because I can at least access it on a browser in Windows, something I occasionally have to use. Also, Things doesn’t give you a unified week view of your tasks, something I find very useful. My question to you is - of the two apps, which is the more stable, which is better for not losing data and those kind of things. I figure that is critical. Thanks!

[@justinnorth3814]

Great video, really appreciate the time it took to plan this all out for us and put it all together. One quick question - how/why is the Finder icon from macOS in the dock on your iPad Pro?

[@thedeathcabkid]

If you’re still wondering how to do this, I can let you know

[@tacrit]

What on earth is Apple waiting to integrate Reminders with Calendar 🙄

[@samschemm3002]

That would be amazingly helpful

[@vasilijejerotic1840]

That’s what I’ve been thinking for years about not being able to undo and correct myself and see all the previous numbers in the calculator app… super frustrating

[@bricklebox2099]

I’ve seen the Lego Concorde a few times now in your videos 😊

[@TonyTylerDraws]

Been using the grocery list option but as a “what I have in stock” list. As I buy things, I add them to the list. When I use something off, I mark it off

[@RobertSmith-ch9jj]

I thought I wanted an interactive Reminders widget. I accidentally marked off two items immediately after updating. That changed my mind pretty quickly. 😂😂

[@wave02wave]

Time stamps would be great. Nice video!😊

[@daniellip1243]

I wish there is progress bar for tasks to visualise how close are to finishing all tasks within a list

[@susycrypto]

Hi Chris, do you know how to backup or download the data that is stored in the Notes and Reminders iCloud? I just want to store a copy outside iCloud. Thanks !!!

[@tahanumansimsek]

Awesome video(s) thanks

[@ChrisLawley]

I’m glad you like them!

[@jankarlsson8341]

Sometimes if feels like it takes as much time organizing and writing down things to do instead of just doing them.

[@igorchichkin509]

WoW 🎉🎉🎉awesome ❤❤❤

[@JONTHEDREAMER]

Amazing video

[@bethvaughn1215]

I can’t figure out the task cut shortcut. The link in the description doesn’t work or I’m opening it in the wrong way. Any suggestions?

[@piliq3774]

hopefully they change those things. And it would he nice to be able to just move tasks in the Kanban page by just drag and drop it into the desired column, and not exactly in between tests in the desired column

[@shaunhoward7876]

Will you be switching from Things to reminders permanently?

[@cathompson58]

How do you get these lists to view in side by side columns? mine only list one at a time

[@user-mn9rm5pn5y]

' Legend

[@mintchip7178]

Connecting more deeply with Notes and accessing existing documents would be nice fixes. Appreciate your thoroughness but maybe with a slower pace or a sections breakdown. Still, you killed it on this one!

[@michaelg.8585]

Hi from Paris this is the first time I see a video so complete, where I learn a lot about a so common app. Thanks a lot, you got a new subscriber now!!!

[@jpg-o-km]

A lot of todoist inspirations... This app become usefull, beed a few more update for beeing the best

[@mihneafronie9390]

What’s the wallpaper ? And where can i get it ?

[@thanaphatp.1451]

Can you sync this reminder to google calendar ?

[@shivtalwar2]

Cannot seem to figure out how to create the 'Someday' list?

[@eastbayjay]

This is very helpful. I didn't know Apple reminders could do all this. I downloaded the TaskCut shortcut. How do I get it to save to the Inbox? And it does not seem to recognize Safari for me.

[@ChrisLawley]

You have to create a list called Inbox. For the Safari issue I think this is a bug in the shipping version of iOS 17. I just started having this issue as well. I filmed this video durning the beta.

[@TonyTylerDraws]

Any chance you could do an Apple-only workflow video?

[@suzansh4582]

How did you add sections and the view I cannot do it. Any help

[@marcodimario9918]

Thanks

[@ChrisLawley]

Thank you!!

[@brentowens2374]

I downloaded your Bag Checklist shortcut. Looks great except the last function is using Things not Reminders. How can I set this up to create the list in Reminders?

[@ChrisLawley]

Sorry about that, I uploaded the wrong version. Here is the right one: www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c4ba8cb9772741ffa2929cabb996ffb2

[@MythicalFamilyYT]

Question… can’t find the Routines app you mention. Is there a different one you use now a few months later?

[@joerama]

Pure firehose. Great insights (good and wishlist). TY